Honest Elections is a coalition of groups and people who work to achieve campaign finance reform in Oregon at the state and local levels.

This is the website for the first 3 efforts: Multnomah County, Portland, and Oregon. The top-level menu items have sub-menus for each one, where needed. But the need for reform is largely the same on all levels.

"We thank our dozens of volunteers and also thank the volunteers of the Portland Clean Energy Fund initiative, who collected thousands of signatures on the campaign finance reform measure," said Liz Trojan, one of the chief petitioners of the Portland Campaign Finance Reform Charter Amendment.

This measure is like Multnomah County Measure 26-184 (2016), which amended the Multnomah County Charter to limit political campaign contributions and expenditures in candidate elections and to require that political ads prominently disclose their actual major funders (not just nice-sounding names of committees or nonprofit corporations).

"Voters approved that measure with an 89% `yes' vote in 2016, and we will do the same in Portland in November 2018," said organizer and Portland attorney Jason Kafoury.

The Portland Campaign Finance Reform Charter Amendment would extend the same protections to City of Portland elections, including Mayor, City Council, and City Auditor.

We are also working to amend the Oregon Constitution in 2020 to eliminate the contention that, unlike the constitutions of every other state, it somehow prohibits the enforcement of limits on political campaign contributions. The free speech clause in the Oregon Constitution is the same as in 36 other states; all of those states have limits on political contributions. This measure is aimed at the November 2020 ballot, because of steps taken by anti-reform activists to delay our opportunity to collect signatures for 2018 by repeatedly challenging in court the ballot title prepared by the Attorney General (and the revised ballot title prepared by the Attorney General). Can you guess the political party most closely affiliated with those anti-reform agents?

In 2016, our efforts resulted in the enactment of Multnomah County Measure 26-184, which amended the Multnomah County Charter to limit contributions to candidates for County public office and to require that political ads financed by any large donors prominently disclose those donors in the ads. Measure 26-184 received a "YES" vote of 89% from Multnomah County voters.

honest elections launches Portland effort

The voters of Multnomah County enacted Measure 26-184 by a margin of 89% "yes" to 11% "no" at the November 2016 election. The voters inside Portland were 90% "yes" on the measure. So we are offering Portland voters the opportunity to adopt a very similar measure to amend the City Charter to get big money out of Portland politics.

Honest elections launches statewide effort

Oregon Progressive Party and Alliance for Democracy have launched a state-wide effort for a November 2020 ballot measure which would amend the Oregon Constitution to allow limits on campaign contributions and expenditures. The amendment would read:Laws consistent with the freedom of speech guarantee of the United States Constitution may regulate contributions and expenditures, of any type or description, to influence the outcome of any election; provided, that such laws are adopted or amended by an elected legislative body by a three-fourths vote of each chamber or by initiative.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED! If you can gather 10 or 100 signatures, please contact David e Delk for the signature sheets and any other information you will need. In your email subject line include: 2020 signatures

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Honest Elections Oregon and Honest Elections Portland are run by volunteers and is fueled by unpaid civic effort. It has received funding from Oregon Giving Back Fund, a nonprofit organization supported by grants from Harry Lonsdale, and from Dan Meek, David Delk, the Kafoury McDougal Law firm, Hugh McGavick and others, all available on the Oregon ORESTAR campaign finance reporting system.